Hey, I'm Maraea
I AM. Therefore, I choose.
I’m a Reality Creation Process Coach and the creator of The Art of Being, a practical framework concerned with four fundamental areas of human development: self-understanding, agency, self-expression, and relationship. I created The Art of Being to give myself a set of tools that did not exist, but that I needed. At the heart of my work is a simple proposition: I AM. Therefore, I choose
The Art of Being
The Art of Being maps the architecture of human experience through the lens of adaptation: how perception, identity, emotion and relationship organise experience, shape behaviour, and influence the way we participate in life. Its models, frameworks and practical tools make those structures easier to recognise, understand and work with, creating a practical pathway from self-understanding into conscious participation.
What Makes The Art of Being Different?
The Art of Being does not begin with the assumption that you need to become a better version of yourself. It begins by asking how you became organised around the life you have lived. Adaptation is treated as intelligence rather than defect, patterns as responses rather than identity, and emotional experience as information. The work is designed to increase understanding without removing agency, so insight becomes a foundation for choice rather than another explanation of why you are the way you are.
The Architecture of Being
The architecture supporting The Art of Being draws physics, philosophy and psychology into one framework for understanding how reality functions, what it means to exist, and how we experience and participate in life. Together, these perspectives connect the mechanics of reality, the meaning of existence and the lived experience of participation.
The Field Guide to Human Adaptation
The Field Guide to Human Adaptation is a practical map of the ways human beings adapt to pressure, uncertainty, relationship, emotion, identity and change. It reframes familiar labels and behaviours as adaptive states rather than fixed identities, helping you understand what a response may be organising around, what capacity sits beneath it, and where greater choice can become available.
Neurodivergence
Neurodivergence is woven through The Art of Being. This work was built from inside a neurodivergent experience of perception, intensity, pattern recognition, emotion, adaptation, communication, and relationship. When you understand your own architecture you can build greater coherency, agency, expression, and participation from within it.
How The Art of Being Developed
The Art of Being grew from lived experience, years of independent study and development, and my work as a Reality Creation Process Coach. I originally began building these tools because I needed a more coherent way to understand my own experience. Over time, that work developed into a much larger system for understanding human adaptation, identity, agency, emotion and relationship.
The Art of Being Commitment
The Art of Being is designed to help you build a fulfilling and meaningful experience; a life that feels stable, secure, authentically expressed and deeply your own. You will learn to recognise and change the patterns shaping your experience, self-regulate, communicate clearly, trust your own choices, and cultivate secure relationships with others. By the end of the year, the work will be visible in how you inhabit yourself, how you relate, how you recover, how you express yourself, and how confidently you participate in building a life and a world you genuinely love.
LIFE IS A GAME
LIFE IS A GAME is the philosophy and foundation beneath The Art of Being. It is based on the idea that life is participatory. We perceive, interpret, choose, respond, relate and create within a field that is constantly moving. If LIFE IS A GAME describes the field, The Art of Being is about understanding who you are within it and how you choose to participate. Life is a game and you are both the player and creator of your experience.
Upcoming Courses
Architecture of Being Masterclass, from October 3rd 2026
Field Guide to Human Adaptation Masterclass, from November 27, 2026
The Art of Being Masterclass from December 11, 2026
The Art of Being 12 Month Course, first cohort beginning in February 2027.
Meet You In The Library
Trying to figure life out?
The Art of Being 2027 starts in February.
No need to wait that long though.
Make your way to the form below to access free resources I designed for the 2022 version of me, and for anyone navigating those same kinds of questions now.
I’ll meet you there.
